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She isn’t worth it.

Don’t undersell yourself- you’d be most valuable not flying on a 365 to AUAB.

Or talk to shazzams SQ/CC.... I hear she has a direct line to Gen Kelly

Current 11F...good luck. You’ll need to wait til you can go guard/reserve. There’s gotta be a chick involved to do something like this so you should just volunteer for UPT and have her try to get the same base. Enjoy Laughlin. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

So I'm sure a few of you saw the AFPC mail robot requesting more officers for recruiting, ROTC, OTS, and Academy jobs. I filled mine out hoping to go to an ROTC gig back in my home town. I called the det in my home town. They were super-excited to have a rated officer interested. They're undermanned and need instructors. My own community is shrinking. Leadership is running through COA after COA for where we can possibly place all these pilots and WSOs as squadrons draw down to almost half their size, and as we're being told attached flyers will do all their currency and training events in the sim (if you're in the OSS, you're probably not going to see the inside of a jet again for a while, if ever). So...after a couple phone calls and an email or two, I get my answer - rated officers are completely ineligible to teach ROTC due to the Rated Staff Allocation Plan (or whatever we're calling it now). So, instead of not flying but executing a CSAF-directed task of bringing new officers into the Air Force, I can not fly and sit in an office here at Dyess because the UMD is programmed for a flyer. Thanks, Air Force.

So...PRFs & promotions?

I know you guys are tired of hearing the "which aircraft are at which base" question so I figured I'd try to help out future pilots and pilot-selects. Black=Operational base Orange=Training base Blue=Operational & Training base F-15E - Seymour Johnson (NC), Mountain Home (ID), Lakenheath (UK); Active force inventory: 217 F-15C - Kadena (Japan), Lakenheath (UK); Active force inventory: ? F-16 - Luke (AZ), Spangdahlem (Germany), Aviano (Italy), Osan (Korea), Kunsan (Korea), Misawa (Japan), Hill (UT), Shaw (SC); Active force inventory: 444 A-10 - Davis Monthan (AZ), Spangdalhem (Germany), Osan (Korea), Moody (GA); Active force inventory: 144 F-22 - Tyndall (FL), Langley (VA), Elmendorf (AK), Holloman (NM); Active force inventory: 91 U-2 - Beale (CA); Active force inventory: 31 B-2 - Whiteman (MO); Active force inventory: 20 B-1 - Dyess (TX), Ellsworth (SD); Active force inventory: 65 B-52 - Barksdale (LA), Minot (ND); Active force inventory: 85 EC-130H - Davis Monthan (AZ); Active force inventory: 14 MC-130H - Kirtland (NM), Hurlburt (FL), Kadena (Japan), Mildenhall (UK); Active force inventory: 20 MC-130P - Kirtland (NM), Eglin (FL), Kadena (Japan), Mildenhall (UK); Active force inventory: 23 AC-130W - Cannon (NM) , Active Force inventory: 12 HC-130 - Kirtland (NM), Davis Mothan (AZ), Moody (GA); Active force inventory: 13 AC-130U - Hurlburt (FL), Active force inventory: 17 AC-130H - Hurlburt (FL), Cannon (NM); Active force inventory: 8 C-130J - Little Rock (AR), Dyess (TX), Ramstien (Germany); Active force inventory: ? C-130H - Little Rock (AR), Yokota (Japan), Cheyenne (WY), Peterson (CO); Active force inventory: 186 C-17 - Altus (OK), McChord (WA), Charleston (SC), McGuire (NJ), Dover (DE), Hickam (HI), Elmendorf (AK), Travis (CA); Active force inventory: 134 C-5 - Kelly/Lackland (TX), Travis (CA), Dover (DE); Active force inventory: 70 C-21 - Keesler (MS), Peterson (CO), Scott (IL), Andrews (MD), Ramstein (Germany); Active force inventory: 35 KC-10 - Travis (CA), McGuire (NJ) ; Active force inventory: 59 KC-135 - Altus (OK), Fairchild (WA), McConnell (KS), Grand Forks (ND), MacDill (FL), Seymour Johnson (NC), Pease (NH), Birmingham (AL), Scott (IL), March (CA), Kadena (Japan) and Mildenhall (UK); Active force inventory: 195 RC-135 - Offutt (NE) ; Active force inventory: 16 E-3 - Tinker (OK), Kadena (Japan), Elmendorf (AK); Active force inventory: 33 E-4 - Offutt (NE); Active force inventory: 4 E-8 - Robbins (GA); Active force inventory: 17 CV-22 - Kirtland (NM), Cannon (NM), Hurlburt (FL), Mildenhall (UK); Active force inventory: 50 (planned) HH-60 - Kirtland (NM), Nellis (NV), Davis Monthan (AZ), Moody (GA), Kadena (Japan), Lakenheath (UK); Active force inventory: 64 UH-1 - Kirtland (NM), Andrews (MD), Yokota (Japan), Fairchild (WA), FE Warren (WY), Malmstrom (MT), Minot (ND); Active force inventory: 62 U-28 - Hurlburt (FL); Cannon (NM) Active force inventory: 6 MC-12 - Beale (CA), Active force inventory: ? NSA - Cannon (NM); Hurlburt (FL); Active force inventory: ? MQ-1B - Creech (NV), Cannon (NM); Active force inventory: ? MQ-9 - Creech (NV), Cannon (NM); Active force inventory: ? ANG/AFRC bases and aircraft (ANG, AFRC) A-10: Ft Smith AR, Ft Wayne IN, Baltimore MD, Boise ID, Selfride MI, Bradley CT (103rd), Moody C5: Westover MA (439th), NY (105th) C-17: March, Memphis, Jackson MS C-21: Bradley CT, Fargo ND, Battle Creek MI C-130: 109th NY, 107th NY F-15C: Great Falls MT, Portland OR, Klamath Falls OR, New Orleans LA, Jacksonville FL, Barnes MA F-15E: Seymour Johnson F-16: Homestead ARB, Sioux Falls SD, Des Moines IA, Madison WI, Tuscon AZ, Freson CA, Tulsa OK, Toledo OH, Andrews DC, Atlantic City NJ, Burlington VT, Buckley CO, Duluth MN. South Carolina, Burlington VT (158th), , Springfield OH, Lackland TX (FTU), NY (174th) F-22: Hickam, HI (199FS) HH-60: Patrick, Davis Monthan, Moffett CA, Kulis AK, Gabreski NY KC-135: Seymour Johnson, March ARB, Pease NH (157th), Bangor ME (101st), Scott, Birmingham Predator: Fargo ND

In other news, I just saw the memo from Deputy CSAF-manpower that 2-line PRFs are official, effective 16 Sept 19. More details are apparently on mypers (not gonna log on to mypers to find them)

Glad they both got out ok. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I don’t know about leave...all I ever learned was that TLE stops at 10 days or when you get housing whichever is less. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

That’s a great example of “come up with an official reason so we don’t have to tell them the real reason.” Cracks, lol. Navy dudes completely cover theirs in tape.

You are rolling to AD for a single, specific assignment that last 3 years and 1 day. You’re still on the AFRC/ANG promotion cycle and when done with your VLPAD assignment, you go back to AFRC/ANG (but not your original unit unless they hire you back).

You could look at AFSOC AC/MC-130 or HC/EC-130 and stay in ACC if you are just trying to avoid the iron triad.

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Contrary to the opinion above, I would recommend retaking the AFOQT. Most fighter apps will have higher scores across the board, so getting those up will only certainly help. It’s one less thing in your application to have to “explain”, at least.

Scores are good, be prepared to explain why your quantitative score is low. I think getting your PPL is key, it checks a big box for a lot of squadrons and the extra hours will do a lot for your PCSM. I wouldn't sweat the LORs, I really thinking chasing letters from generals/senators who don't really know you is a waste of time. A letter from the manager at your part time job at 7/11 that says you're a hard worker, dedicated, etc., is gonna be worth a lot more.

They've seriously hired ~half my squadron over the last 5 years, to include my SQ/CC late last year. Pretty much everyone in our squadron who has applied to Delta has been hired. If there is discrimination happening in the hiring process, it hasn't impacted us. Only a few of these hires were guys who were anywhere near retirement. From what I read, the lawsuit has nothing to do with hiring but rather stuff that happened to currently employed pilots that still serve in the ARC. I go on all our deployments, almost every squadron TDY and occasionally drop a trip for mloa, and I haven't felt at all targeted or discriminated against. Then again, I did not get hired and immediately drop multiple years of orders...I actually enjoy the hell out of this gig and being a true part-timer.

For whatever its worth I often tell people the single biggest mistake i made in UPT was not giving helos any serious consideration at track select. There was something about the culture at UPT at the time that just implied you would want a jet. Not sure I would have gone that direction but I'm dissapointed in myself for not considering it more. I do remember though, on career day, the C-130 dude and the C-17 dude got in a dick measuring contest. I think the C-17 argued they could land shorter than a 130 but the 130 said they flew low level lower than the C-17. Rucker instructor gets up there next, scratches his neck, looks around, and says "well I don't know what all this pissing match is, but I will tell you we can fly lower and land shorter than both C-17s and C-130s." Whole room got a chuckle and that dude got mad cred for dropping bombs.

Not a helo guy, but will pass this piece of advice on: Don’t base your preferences on current downrange ops; by the time you get there it may be completely different. Set yourself up to train to a mission set you are excited about. You’ll likely get to execute it. (Except, we hope, for nukes.)

With your pilot and PCSM scores why would you take the AFOQT again? You know they take your latest scores first? That seems like a wasted effort and a risky proposition.